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Emily Henry is back with one of the most anticipated novels of 2025, and both Target and Barnes & Noble have launched pre-orders for an exclusive edition of the book.
“Great Big Beautiful Life” is the tenth book from Henry, whose bestselling 2020 romance novel, “Beach Read,” propelled her into the literary spotlight. “Great Big Beautiful Life” officially hits bookshelves on April 22, 2025 but Amazon, Target and Barnes & Noble have the book available to pre-order now.
The Barnes & Noble exclusive edition includes a special colorway, exclusive endpapers, and an alternate case color with an exclusive foil-stamped quote. Target, meantime, promises “bonus content” from Henry, though it’s not clear if there are additional pages to the story, or other publisher-related extras. Previous Target exclusives have included autographed copies of Henry’s books, signed by the author herself.
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Great Big Beautiful Life
You can also pre-order the regular edition of Henry’s new book at Amazon, or support independent booksellers by purchasing “Great Big Beautiful Life” at Bookshop.org.
The new book is available on hardcover, paperback, Kindle and as an audiobook. Per publisher Berkley, the 432-novels book follows two writers who “compete for the chance to tell the larger-than-life story of a woman with more than a couple of plot twists up her sleeve.”
The characters of Alice and Hayden compete to “write the biography of a woman no one has seen in years — or at least to meet with the octogenarian who claims to be the Margaret Ives,” reads the publisher notes. Margaret is a “tragic heiress, former tabloid princess, and daughter of one of the most storied (and scandalous) families of the 20th century.” And as Alice and Hayden work to uncover her story, it soon becomes “abundantly clear that their story—just like the tale Margaret’s spinning—could be a mystery, tragedy, or love ballad…depending on who’s telling it.”
“Great Big Beautiful Life” arrives on the heels of a handful of Henry novels getting the Hollywood treatment: “Beach Read,” “Book Lovers” and “Funny Story” are being adapted into films, while Netflix has picked up an adaptation of “People We Meet on Vacation” and “Happy Place.”
